Can’t label Maoist attack intelligence failure: Shinde
byRaipur: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Friday declined to label as an intelligence failure last week’s Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh in which 28 people, including…
Crime
Cattle smugglers kill cop, injure five
byLucknow, May 31 (IANS) A policeman was killed and six others critically injured when a cattle-smuggling gang rammed its truck into a police jeep…
Food poisoning kills inmate at Goa prison
byPanaji, May 31 (IANS) An inmate of Goa’s Aguada Central Jail died while six others are undergoing treatment for of food poisoning, an official…
Court extends Meiyappan, Vindoo custody till Monday
byMumbai, May 31 (IANS) A Mumbai court Friday extended till June 3 the police custody of the IPL spot fixing scam accused Gurunath Meiyappan,…
Jamaican gets life term for killing Indian American woman
byWashington, May 31 (IANS) A Jamaican man has been convicted to life in prison by a US court for the murder of an Indian…
Impersonation arrests puts Nigerians under airport scanner
byNew Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Nigerian nationals are under the scanner at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport after eight people from the country were…
Illegal phone recordings set to quiet burial in Himachal Pradesh
byShimla: Probe into the sensitive phone tapping case is up against a legal wall for the investigators hold that contents of the unauthorized snooping…
Maoist-PLA links broken, says government
byImphal, May 31 (IANS) The tie-up between Maoists and the Manipur-based People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been broken, according to a senior official in…
IPL scandal ‘shocking’, says Sachin
byNew Delhi: Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar today described the spot fixing scandal that has rocked the Indian Premier League (IPL) as “shocking and disappointing”….
Girl burnt to death by friends’ mothers
byBhubaneswar, May 31 (IANS) An 11-year-old girl was allegedly burnt to death by two women for letting out that their daughters too were part…